NO ONE'S REALLY GONE

Before we were us, we did not suffer; what did we breathe?

A short life is all there is; does a lifetime seem so long? We are gone.

Is the earth all there is? Beyond, we do not know if life exists,

Around us is all that exists; beyond the night sky, could there be life?

While we are here, we experience many sides to a life not really understood,

Emotions of all kinds, they travel with us daily as the sun goes down.

We start a baby just born; there comes a day when in ways a baby again,

Time takes from us our youthful ways; it can steal our thoughts, we decay,

No one’s really gone; energy and spirit travel on to a new beginning, another song.

                               Keith Garrett